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The Nouvelle Athènes was a café in the Place Pigalle in Paris, France. It was a meeting place for impressionist painters, including Matisse, Van Gogh and Degas. Degas painted L'Absinthe in this place.
During the 1940s, the café was known as the Sphynx; it was a striptease club frequented by the Nazis and later by the Free French partisans. In the 1980s and 1990s, it was known as the New Moon, a rock venue where Mano Negra, the French Lovers, Noir Désir, Calvin Russel, the Naked Apes of Reason, Les Wampas, and many other groups performed.
The café was destroyed in 2004.
External links
- The Nouvelle Athènes in 1925
- Musée de la Vie romantique, Hôtel Scheffer-Renan, Paris
Categories:- Restaurants in Paris
- Strip clubs
- Defunct clubs and societies
- Dining clubs
- Music venues in France
- Former buildings and structures of Paris
- Impressionist artists
- 2004 disestablishments
- Île-de-France geography stubs
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